I think Rachel was just poking Frigg to find her buttons, to find what Frigg cares about enough to summon power. Live up to other people’s expectations? ha, no. Her self-image? Nope. Her companions? Yes!

I actually had a Power Glove. And yeah, it was bad. Really sucked as a controller. From an engineering standpoint it was interesting, using two high-frequency sound emitters on the knuckles and three microphones in a flipped L-pattern ( ┐ ) you would attach to the TV to sense the XYZ position of your hand. Too bad the ancient TV that I had at the time used high frequency sound for its remote control. I would point the glove at the screen, and it would make the TV volume go all the way down, and then shut off!

All Rachel has shown is that Frigg can summon up the glowy stuff when she gets pissed which is pretty the same thing we saw before, she hasn’t really changed Frigg’s view or disposition in any way. At least it doesn’t appear so though I expect the next strip will suddenly prove me wrong.

On the other hand it’s nice to see Rachel get mauled and possibly disfigured so I’d say it was worth it.

I don’t think it’s just that she’s pissed, or that she said ‘goddammit’. It’s her vow (using the term loosely) to protect her companions that gives her power. So when Rachel calls her out on not being good enough to protect them, glowy gauntlet shit happens.

It reminds me of the champion class from Arcana Evolved. Their class abilities function only when they are defending the person/place/thing that they champion.

Still, having an opportunity to work through the kinks of this and let Frigg get a feel for it outside of the thick of battle is probably worth something on its own.

I’m choosing to think of it like training. You keep repeating that ridiculous feat you pull off by accident once in a blue moon when you’re throwing out desperate gambits and eventually you’re able to do it on purpose whenever you need to. Probably can do it better than when it was a fluke too.

It’s surprising how often people end up doing that to develop new things. Half of chemistry is trying to replicate the cool, crazy thing you created last week when you forgot to clean beakers properly. And martial arts typically consists of trying something, not completely failing, before spending the next month trying to make it work.

I’d guess no, because it’s the more amusing answer. But we’ll see. I mean, that kind of distance on regular punch probably isn’t normal, so there’s something resembling evidence even if nobody was looking right at it when it happened.

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